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Bioshock infinite stuttering please help

straxusii

straxusii

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No spoilers please!

I've got BI through steam and I haven't yet played through it due to the stuttering issues I am having.

It's like every second or 2 there is a 1/10 of a second freeze, it's annoying enough that I am holding off playing the game until I resolve it.

Looking at the power and GPU usage you can see what is happening, or at least a symptom, the usage and power fall off and recover even though when this was taken it was on same screen all the time (the menu screen, it's also happening in-game).

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As you can see I have adaptive power turned off.


I'm running the BI launch drivers 314.22, I haven't yet tried the new 320s but I will.

Happens at all settings, the above was on ultra but makes no difference.

Mem usage isn't close to max.

I have tried killing all background processes to no avail.


Edit: I've also tried playing with vsync on in the app or off in the app and adaptive.

Also tried removing all GPU and CPU overclocks
 
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Try disabling (forced in control panel) vsync (just to see if it goes away) to rule out vsync multipliers being the cause of it. BI has a few bits where performance seems to drop below 30fps suddenly for no real reason which can wreak havoc with vsync (adaptive can help with that problem).

EDIT: I know you mentioned vsync - but what I'm suggesting is forcing it off entirely through the control panel as I assume you've only enabled/disabled via the ingame setting which doesn't always have the desired result.
 
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Does appear at face value tho that your falling foul of kepler's dynamic clock adjustment :| there are ways to force a constant clock rate but does mean you need to make sure the GPU isn't getting too warm.
 
Using any type of vsync will result in power usage dropping regularly. If your fps is capped to 60 then its only going to run at whatever percentage usage is required to achieve that. Don't know if this is the reason for stuttering though.
 
Quite a few threads on various forums with peeps having stuttering in this game from either side but strange because so many have had no probs at all.
 
bluesouljah said:
I had the same problem make sure that post processing is set to Normal rather than Alternate in in-game settings. Worked for me. Hope this helps.
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Good point actually if you run the benchmark with certain settings it will set ingame to alternative post-processing even if you'd selected normal before and results in stutter - had that happen to me and it went away after setting it to normal.
 
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